In article <ACjSiUpuB5 at wlab.freenet.kiev.ua>, ivanov at wlab.freenet.kiev.ua (Vladimir Ivanov) says:
>I am very glad to contact with another biologists and computer
>specialists which are interesting in the problem of
>biocomputer.The following idea seems a little bit phantastic
>but I am sure that the creation of microbial "brain" is very
>real and useful thing.
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>Prof.Vladimir Ivanov
>Department of Microbiology and General Immunology,
> MICROBIAL "NEURAL NETWORK": ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE FROM FUNGY
>> by Vladimir N. Ivanov
>>Department of Microbiology and General Immunology,Ukrainian
>National University, 60 Vladimirskaya St.,Kiev,252017,Ukraine
>E-mail : ivanov at wlab.freenet.kiev.ua>>ABSTRACT.Microbial chip ("artificial intelligence") may be
>created as a pseudo-neural network grown as mycelium of
>fungy.This network is grown/created under the learning action
>of computer .Such chip will be very cheap.Notwithstanding the
>low rate of fuzzy logic operations such chip may be useful for
>the solving the anthropomorphic problems and for the
>biosensoring
Look, no offense, but this really seems more like a posting for
the X-Files page. I realize there is some legitimate research
being performed on biochips, but these kinds of general semi-
philosophical postings are really kind of off topic. To make
statements such as" the network is grown/created under the
learning action of a computer" are meaningless. How would you
propose to control the growth of a fungal mycelium by a computer?
If you are going to suggest something, please try to state the
proposition in some sort of rigourous manner. This really borders
on the college dorm late night BS sessions. There are other forums
for these kinds of postings. Many come here to obtain technical
information on real microbiology problems. Sorry to seem so
harsh, but the number of these postings seems to be on the increase
as the number of questions about microbiology problems/issues
declines.
Tom Dougherty
